Mandevilla plant named ‘Inmanliabr’

ABSTRACT

A new and distinct cultivar of Mandevilla plant named ‘Inmanliapr’, characterized by its compact, upright to broadly spreading plant habit; moderately vigorous to vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; relatively small, glossy and medium green-colored leaves; early and freely flowering habit; and apricot-colored flowers with bright orange yellow-colored centers.

Botanical designation: Mandevilla sanderi.

Cultivar denomination: ‘INMANLIABR’.

STATEMENT REGARDING PRIOR DISCLOSURES BY INVENTOR/APPLICANT AND ASSIGNEE

An European Community Plant Breeder's Rights application for the instant plant was filed by the Applicant/Assignee of the instant application, Innovaplant Zierpflanzen GmbH & Co. KG of Gensingen, Germany on Nov. 23, 2021, application number 2021/3018. Foreign priority is not claimed to this European Community Plant Breeder's Rights application.

The Inventor and Applicant/Assignee assert that no publications nor advertisements relating to sales, offers for sale or public distribution occurred more than one year prior to the effective filing date of this application. Any information about the claimed plant would have been obtained from a direct or indirect disclosure from the Inventor and/or Applicant/Assignee. Inventor and Applicant/Assignee claim a prior art exception under 35 U.S.C. 102(b)(1) for disclosure and/or sales prior to the filing date but less than one year prior to the effective filing date.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Mandevilla plant, botanically known as Mandevilla sanderi and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Inmanliapr’.

The new Mandevilla plant is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Heidesheim, Germany. The objective of the breeding program is to create new freely branching Mandevilla plants that flower early and freely and have attractive flowers that resist fading and sun scald.

The new Mandevilla plant originated from a cross-pollination conducted by the Inventor in Heidesheim, Germany in July, 2017 of Mandevilla sanderi ‘Inmanwhimp’, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 28,276, as the female, or seed parent with Mandevilla sanderi ‘Sunpapri’, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 28,277, as the male, or pollen, parent. The new Mandevilla plant was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a single flowering plant from within the progeny of the stated cross-pollination in a controlled greenhouse environment in Heidesheim, Germany in August, 2018.

Asexual reproduction of the new Mandevilla plant by vegetative cuttings in a controlled greenhouse environment in Heidesheim, Germany since August, 2018 has shown that the unique features of this new Mandevilla plant are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Plants of the new Mandevilla have not been observed under all possible combinations of environmental conditions and cultural practices. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environmental conditions such as temperature and light intensity without, however, any variance in genotype.

The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Inmanliapr’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Inmanliapr’ as a new and distinct Mandevilla plant:

-   -   1. Compact, upright to broadly spreading plant habit.     -   2. Moderately vigorous to vigorous growth habit.     -   3. Freely branching habit.     -   4. Relatively small, glossy and medium green-colored leaves.     -   5. Early and freely flowering habit.     -   6. Apricot-colored flowers with bright orange yellow-colored         centers.

Plants of the new Mandevilla can be compared to plants of the female parent, ‘Inmanwhimp’. Plants of the new Mandevilla differ primarily from plants of ‘Inmanwhimp’ in the following characteristics:

-   -   1. Plants of the new Mandevilla have shorter leaves than plants         of ‘Inmanwhimp’.     -   2. Plants of the new Mandevilla have smaller flowers than plants         of ‘Inmanwhimp’.     -   3. Plants of the new Mandevilla have apricot-colored flowers         whereas plants of ‘Inmanwhimp’ have white-colored flowers.

Plants of the new Mandevilla can be compared to plants of the male parent, ‘Sunpapri’. Plants of the new Mandevilla differ primarily from plants of ‘Sunpapri’ in the following characteristics:

-   -   1. Plants of the new Mandevilla have smaller leaves than plants         of ‘Sunpapri’.     -   2. Plants of the new Mandevilla have smaller flowers than plants         of ‘Sunpapri’.     -   3. Plants of the new Mandevilla flower earlier than plants of         ‘Sunpapri’.

Plants of the new Mandevilla can also be compared to plants of Mandevilla hybrida ‘Sunpa 2675’, not patented. In side-by-side comparisons, plants of the new Mandevilla differ primarily from plants ‘Sunpa 2675’ in the following characteristics:

-   -   1. Leaves of plants of the new Mandevilla are not as glossy as         leaves of plants of ‘Sunpa 2675’.     -   2. Plants of the new Mandevilla have apricot-colored flowers         with bright orange yellow-colored centers whereas plants of         ‘Sunpa 2675’ have light yellow-colored flowers with dark         yellow-colored centers with orange-colored stripes.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS

The accompanying colored photographs illustrate the overall appearance of the new Mandevilla plant showing the colors as true as it is reasonably possible to obtain in colored reproductions of this type. Colors in the photographs may differ slightly from the color values cited in the detailed botanical description which accurately describe the actual colors of the new Mandevilla plant.

The photograph on the first sheet (FIG. 1 ) is a side perspective view of a typical flowering plant of ‘Inmanliapr’ grown in a container.

The photograph on the second sheet (FIG. 2 ) is a close-up view of a typical flowering plant of ‘Inmanliapr’.

DETAILED BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION

The aforementioned photographs and following observations, measurements and values describe plants grown during the summer in 12-cm containers in a glass-covered greenhouse in Heidesheim, Germany and under cultural practices typical of commercial Mandevilla production. During the production of the plants, day temperatures ranged from 12° C. to 35° C. and night temperatures ranged from 12° C. to 18° C. Plants were pinched one time four weeks after planting and were three months old when the photographs and description were taken. In the following description, color references are made to The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart, 2015 Edition, except where general terms of ordinary dictionary significance are used.

-   Botanical classification: Mandevilla sanderi ‘Inmanliapr’. -   Parentage:     -   -   Female, or seed, parent.—Mandevilla sanderi ‘Inmanwhimp’,             disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 28,276.         -   Male, or pollen, parent.—Mandevilla sanderi ‘Sunpapri’,             disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 28,277. -   Propagation:     -   -   Type.—By vegetative cuttings.         -   Time to initiate roots, summer and winter.—About three weeks             at temperatures ranging from 20° C. to 35° C.         -   Time to produce a rooted young plant, summer.—About 20 to 25             days at temperatures ranging from 20° C. to 35° C.         -   Time to produce a rooted young plant, winter.—About 25 to 30             days at temperatures ranging from 20° C. to 25° C.         -   Root description.—Thick, fleshy; typically white in color,             actual color of the roots is dependent on substrate             composition, water quality, fertilizers, substrate             temperature and physiological age of roots.         -   Rooting habit.—Low branching; medium density. -   Plant description:     -   -   Plant and growth habit.—Compact, upright to broadly             spreading plant habit; roughly obovate in overall shape;             moderately vigorous to vigorous growth habit and moderate             growth rate.         -   Plant height, soil level to top of foliar plane.—About 30             cm.         -   Plant height, soil level to top of floral plane.—About 39.9             cm.         -   Plant diameter (spread).—About 34.9 cm.         -   Lateral branch description.—Branching habit: Freely             branching habit, typically about three primary lateral             branches each with about three secondary lateral branches.             Length: About 10.2 cm. Diameter: About 3 mm. Internode             length: About 4.2 cm. Aspect: Primary lateral branches,             mostly upright; secondary lateral branches, about 15° to 30°             from primary branch axis. Strength: Strong. Texture and             luster: Smooth, glabrous; slightly glossy; becoming woody             with development. Color, developing and developed: Close to             a blend of 144A and 144B; when woody, close to N199A to             N199D. -   Leaf description:     -   -   Arrangement.—Opposite, simple.         -   Length.—About 6.3 cm.         -   Width.—About 3.8 cm.         -   Shape.—Oblong to somewhat obovate; slightly carinate.         -   Apex.—Abruptly acute.         -   Base.—Truncate to obtuse.         -   Margin.—Entire.         -   Texture and luster, upper and lower surfaces.—Smooth,             glabrous; moderately coriaceous; glossy.         -   Venation pattern.—Pinnate.         -   Color.—Developing leaves, upper surface: Close to 143A to             143B. Developing leaves, lower surface: Close to 145B. Full             expanded leaves, upper surface: Slightly darker than NN137A;             venation, close to 143B to 143C. Fully expanded leaves,             lower surface: Close to a blend of 146B and 146C; venation,             close to 145C.         -   Petioles.—Length: About 1 cm. Diameter: About 2 mm by             2.5 mm. Strength: Moderately strong. Texture and luster,             upper and lower surfaces: Smooth, glabrous; moderately             glossy. Color, upper and lower surfaces: Close to 145A. -   Flower description:     -   -   Flower type and flowering habit.—Single salverform flowers             arranged in terminal and axillary cymes; flowers face             outwardly to slightly upright; freely flowering habit with             about seven flowers per inflorescence and about 65 flower             buds and open flowers developing per plant during the             flowering season.         -   Natural flowering season.—Plants flower continuously from             spring into the autumn in Germany; plants begin flowering             about 13 weeks after propagation (dependent on light level).         -   Flower longevity on the plant.—Individual flowers last about             two weeks; flowers not persistent.         -   Fragrance.—None detected.         -   Inflorescence height.—About 13.4 cm.         -   Inflorescence diameter.—About 10.9 cm.         -   Flower buds.—Length: About 5.7 cm. Diameter: About 1 cm.             Shape: Narrowly oblanceolate. Texture and luster: Smooth,             glabrous; slightly glossy. Color: Distally, close to 162C             with apex, close to 18A; proximally, lighter than 153D and             tube, close to 150A.         -   Flowers.—Appearance: Flared trumpet, corolla fused and             five-parted. Diameter: About 7.5 cm by 7.5 cm. Depth             (length): About 6 cm. Throat diameter: About 1.7 cm. Tube             length: About 4.1 cm. Tube diameter: Proximally, about 3 mm;             distally, about 1.4 cm.         -   Corolla.—Quantity and arrangement: Five petals arranged in a             single whorl; lower 53% portion of the petals are fused into             a funnelform tube. Petal length: About 7.7 cm. Petal width:             About 3.2 cm. Petal shape and appearance: Roughly unequal             spatulate; strongly convex. Petal apex: Apiculate, unequal.             Petal margin: Entire; coarsely revolute and moderately             undulate. Petal texture and luster, upper and lower             surfaces: Smooth, glabrous; slightly velvety; slightly             glossy. Throat texture: Smooth, glabrous; velvety. Tube             texture: Smooth, glabrous; slightly velvety. Color: Petal,             when opening, upper surface: Close to a blend of 26C and 26D             with apex, close to 31D and flushed with close to 24A             towards the throat. Petal, when opening, lower surface:             Close to 26D; midvein and adjacent area, close to 18B.             Petal, fully opened, upper surface: Close to 27A to slightly             darker than 27A; towards the apex and margins, close to a             blend of 24C to 24D and 29C; flushed with close to 21B             towards the throat; venation, similar to lamina; color             becoming closer to 27D and flushed with close to 22B to 22C             towards the throat with subsequent development. Petal, fully             opened, lower surface: Close to 27A and towards the tube,             close to 19B to 19C; venation, close to 18C; color becoming             closer to 27D with subsequent development. Throat: Close to             23B; proximally, close to 25A and at the base of the throat,             close to 151B; venation, similar to lamina colors or close             to 17A. Tube: Mid-section, close to 14B; distally, close to             19B and proximally, close to 153D and 151B; venation,             similar to lamina colors.         -   Sepals.—Quantity and arrangement: Five sepals arranged in a             single whorl. Length: About 8 mm. Width: About 2 mm. Shape:             Lanceolate. Apex: Narrowly acuminate. Base: Broadly cuneate             and fused. Margin: Entire. Texture and luster, upper             surface: Smooth, glabrous; slightly glossy. Texture and             luster, lower surface: Smooth, glabrous; matte. Color: When             developing, upper surface: Close to 145C; towards the base,             close to 145A; apex, close to 179B. When developing, lower             surface: Close to 145B; towards the base, close to 145A;             apex, close to 179A to 179B. Fully opened, upper surface:             Close to 145B; towards the base, close to 145A; apex, close             to 179B; at the margins, close to 145C. Fully opened, lower             surface: Close to 145B; towards the base, close to 145A;             apex, close to 179A.         -   Peduncles.—Length: About 8.5 cm. Diameter: About 2 mm.             Strength: Strong. Aspect: About 15° to 45° from lateral             branch axis. Texture and luster: Smooth, glabrous;             moderately glossy. Color: Close to a blend of 144A and 146A.         -   Pedicels.—Length: About 1.7 cm. Diameter: About 2 mm.             Strength: Strong. Aspect: About 20° to 60° from peduncle             axis. Texture and luster: Smooth, glabrous; slightly glossy.             Color: Close to 144B.         -   Reproductive organs.—Stamens: Quantity and arrangement:             Typically five; basifixed; anthers connivent. Filament             length: About 5 mm. Filament color: Close to 153D. Anther             shape: Narrowly oblong. Anther size: About 1.25 mm by 7 mm.             Anther color: Close to 163C. Pollen amount: None observed.             Pistils: Quantity: Typically one. Pistil length: About 2 cm.             Style length: About 1.75 cm. Style color: Close to 145D.             Stigma diameter: About 2 mm. Stigma shape: Club-shaped,             pointed. Stigma color: Close to 153C. Ovary color: Close to             145A.         -   Seeds and fruits.'To date, seed and fruit production have             not been observed on plants of the new Mandevilla. -   Pathogen & pest resistance: To date, plants of the new Mandevilla     have not been noted to be resistant to pathogens and pests common to     Mandevilla plants. -   Temperature tolerance: Plants of the new Mandevilla have been     observed to tolerate temperatures ranging from about 5° C. to about     40° C. and to be suitable for USDA Hardiness Zones 9 to 13. 

It is claimed:
 1. A new and distinct Mandevilla plant named ‘Inmanliapr’ as illustrated and described. 